 | |
       |
| Piga Virus? |
  |
| Author | Message | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graham Site Admin  Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 219 Location: Piga Software HQ, near Seba Beach, Alberta, Canada |
|
||||||||
|
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
| Hamish Site Admin  Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 109 Location: Piga Software HQ, Alberta Canada |
|
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
| klingoncowboy4 Hog  Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 127 Location: Piga Basement |
|
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
I have actually been playing around with some destructive code though. The nice thing about DOS Box is that it allows you to say which directory you want the fake DOS to think is your root directory. So I used this to safely play around with some file and directory deletion code I have in a book on QBasic. There are some scary revelations here, the "KILL" command can take out any file, even one that I removed permissions too. I don't know if this applies to Microsoft Window's file security, but the way the book was talking about it, this is potent stuff! The directory deletion command "RMDIR" does have one limitation I found, you can't delete your root directory ("C:/"), however you can delete "C:/Windows/". 
I created a program that creates a directory, and then deletes it, and then repeats. Now, in the spirit of free software, here it is (made in QBasic 4.5):
| |
All times are GMT |
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |